Safety, Health, and Well-Being of Municipal Utility and Construction Workers

Authors

Todd Bodner, Portland State UniversityFollow
Mariah Kraner, Portland State University
Brittany Bradford
Leslie B. Hammer, Portland State UniversityFollow
Donald M. Truxillo, Portland State UniversityFollow

Sponsor

Funding for this project was through the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (www.ohsu.edu/ohwc), a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Total Worker Health Center of Excellence (Grant: U19OH010154).

Published In

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2014

Subjects

Quality of work life, Well-being, Industrial organization -- Psychological aspects, Occupational Health, Workplace -- Psychology

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

To provide a baseline description of psychosocial workplace stressors and supports along with safety, injury, health, and well-being indicators in a sample of utility and construction workers for a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-funded Total Worker Health™ intervention study.

METHODS:

Survey responses and health assessments were collected from a total of 349 employees in two municipal utility departments.

RESULTS:

Participants demonstrated poor weight control and body mass index and provided reports of frequent poor health habits, injury, and pain. Although safety climate was good, less desirable levels of psychosocial workplace stressors and supports were observed. These stressors and supports were found to relate with many of the health, injury, and pain indicators.

CONCLUSIONS:

These results demonstrate the need for workplace interventions to promote and protect construction worker health and the importance of the psychosocial work environment.

Description

Copyright © 2014 by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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DOI

10.1097/JOM.0000000000000178

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/12296

Citation Details

Bodner, T., Kraner, M., Bradford, B., Hammer, L., & Truxillo, D. (2014). Safety, Health, and Well-Being of Municipal Utility and Construction Workers. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 56(7), 771-778.